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Im going on a seven day vacation at the end of the month. I do not have automatic feeders and Id like yo do without if I can because frankly they're expensive. So i was wondering if my fish would be okay with out food for a week. I have a 55 gallon tank with about 15/20 African cichlids and I...

Anyone ever painted the back of their tank? I'm thinking about painting the back of my tank a dark dark blue because that plastic stuff doesn't stay on very well and has to be wiped down from time to time. I heard about someone painting their tank and thought it was a good idea so I really wanna...

What spectrum and wattage bulbs should i use on my cichlid tank? I have recently switched from a planted tank with tropical fish to all African cichlids. Here is my set up, tho I'm still unsatisfied with the look. Something just isn't right about it. And I was wondering about lighting, will my...

I just started up a cichlid tank and About a week and a half/two weeks ago I did a massive filter clean, cleaned the tubes, intake, exhaust, impeller, filter pads. I cleaned just about everything except the filter media such as carbon and lava rocks which I use as biological filtration (because...

I put this Rotala wallichi in my tank several weeks ago. My crabs started to get into them and started sniffing the bases of the plant so I kept having floating Rotala everywhere. So I got rid of the crabs and replanted all the Rotala. Over the past few weeks I've been dealing with a major algae...

I need help! It looks to me as if I've got several different types of algae. I've been using an algae killer which has kinda been working, but I want to make sure this stuff isn't gonna come back

Are red clawed crabs bad to have in a planted tank? I keep finding some of my recently purchased Rotala wallichi floating at the surface of my tank and I'm not sure if my crabs keeps snipping the bottoms off or if they're just badly planted and float up... Anybody have any experience with red...

So I've been doing a lot of research lately and I think I want to transition over to a canister filter. Right now I'm running a marineland 350 power filter On my 55 gallon planted tank and I'm getting tired of cleaning out plant debris out of the filter pads because I have to do it almost twice...

Okay so I'm on amazon looking for a 4 tubed T5 light fixture and I saw one that really stood out to me. Except in the pictures it shows that it takes two type of bulbs, one picture with T5s and another picture with something called PL bulbs? I need a fixture that takes T5 bulbs and I really like...

How long will a 5 pound Co2 tank last at about 2 or 3 bubbles per second?

Okay so I have a standard co2 tank that hooks up to a welding system. But in the area I live in, they don't refill tanks like the one I have. The only place that will refill a tank is a paintball store kinda far from me. the problem is that welding co2 tanks and paintball co2 tanks don't have...

Okay so I'm trying to create a beautiful planted aquarium with several different red plants but I'm having trouble deciding what I want as a center piece plant. I'm looking for a bold red plant that grows tall and broad. Originally i was thinking nesaea crassicaulis and then I started thinking...

How can I learn more about different aquatic plant species? Are there any good books out there that have pictures and explain how to take care of specific plants?

What's the best longest lasting DIY CO2 recipe for a 2 liter bottle?

Will grow lights for terrestrial plants work for a planted tank just as well as "aquarium name brand" lights such as marineland and odyssea? These are the light units I'm looking at. Copy and paste these into the search bar on Home Depots website HomeSelects 4 ft. 4-Lamp High Output T5 Black...

Right now I've got a DIY yeast based CO2 system hooked up to a basic fluval co2 diffuser and I have it right underneath my circulation fan so that it blasts co2 around my tank. It's pretty effective at getting the co2 dispersed around the tank. But that's exactly my problem, the diffuser I have...

I was watching a video on CO2 injection systems and I came across this video that had these plants in it and I really like the plants. Especially the red one in this picture below. I'm looking for a broad red leafed plant to act as a centerpiece in my aquarium so if anyone can help me identify...